The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Ecuador including the description of five new species, a new subtribe, four new synonymies, and fifteen new records Author Sanborn, Allen F. 0000-0001-5729-7106 Department of Biology, Barry University, 11300 NE Second Avenue, Miami Shores, FL 33161 – 6695, USA asanborn@barry.edu text Zootaxa 2020 2020-11-17 4880 1 1 80 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4880.1.1 50f2ef69-fec5-45e5-8005-623e2cb991dc 1175-5326 4425522 33BE91BC-DC0F-4CBB-85AB-CA7BF1891C0C Quesada gigas ( Olivier, 1790 ) Cicada gigas Olivier 1790: 750 . (Java). Cicada triupsilon Walker 1850: 103 . (Unknown collection locality) Cicada sonans Walker 1850: 104 . (Unknown collection locality) Cicada consonans Walker 1850: 106 . ( West Coast of America) Cicada vibrans Walker 1850: 107 . (Unknown collection locality) Tympanoterpes sibilarix Berg 1879: 141 . REMARKS.—The type locality of Java is a mistake. The species is found over most of and is restricted to the New World ( Sanborn & Heath 2014 ; 2017). Quesada gigas is one of if not the largest of the Ecuadorian cicadas with body lengths up to 45 mm and wingspans of 120 mm having been reported ( Sanborn & Heath 2017 ). The body is brown marked with piceous, the male abdomen is widest at segments 3 and 4, and male timbal covers recurve along the posterior timbal cavity forming a ribbon-like structure posterior to the timbals with a small triangular extension laterally. The song sounds like a steam whistle. DISTRIBUTION.—This species may have the most extensive north to south range of any cicada species. It has been reported from as far south as central Argentina , Belize , Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Costa Rica , Ecuador , El Salvador , French Guiana, Guatemala , Guyana , Honduras , Mexico , Nicaragua , Panama , Paraguay , Peru , the Antilles, the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago , Uruguay , Venezuela , extending northward into the southern United States ( Metcalf 1963a ; Duffels & van der Laan 1985 ; Maccagnan & Martinelli 2011; Sanborn 2011b; 2013; 2014a; 2018c; 2019b; 2020b, d, e; Maccagnan et al. 2014 ; Monteiro et al. 2014 ; Sanborn & Heath 2014 ; Reis et al. 2015 ; Maccagnan et al. 2017 ; Oliveira et al. 2017 ). The species is identified from Ecuador with no specific locality in Jacobi (1907a) . Goding (1925) reported the species from Surula and Macas in Morona Santiago province .